Mixed Media Games

Catalog description

Mixed Media Games is an intermediate-level guided seminar where students will focus on creating and mixing ‘traditional’ digital or tabletop prototypes with another form of media. By creating these prototypes, students will learn about different types of media through a lens of play and non-traditional interactions. Each session of the seminar will ask students to discuss each media’s ability to convey its message and to understand how they can take advantage of way each media delivers its information to others. Mixed Media Games will require students to work in groups to finish each cycle's prototype. Additionally, this course will teach students how to create an interactive experience that goes beyond what people might consider 'gamification' of another form of media. Groups will maintain the goal of creating a prototype that is not built on top of a preexisting experience, but rather built alongside the form of media for that cycle.